"How Well are we Achieving our Aims?" – SSAT (1)

Once the wheels start turning on your curriculum change it will be important to gather feedback in a range of contexts and via a number of pre-determined way-stages. Collecting information from stakeholders – yes even the pupils! – is a crucial step along the way.
This first document, produced by SSAT, will be of use during [...]

"How do we Organise Learning?" – SSAT (2)

SSAT have produced a list of questions that could be used with stakeholders from a range of backgrounds to consider what it is you are trying to achieve in your particular school. As with previous posts the questions come in a pretty PDF and a more pragmatic DOC format.
Questions to develop thinking around curriculum change [...]

“How Do we Organise Learning?” – SSAT (1)

SSAT – the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust – have produced exhaustive and high quality resources to support curriculum development. Getting staff to buy-in to the vision of the senior leadership team is critical in the creation of a coherent curriculum that is equally owned by teachers at all levels – to say nothing of [...]

Building up the Big Picture

The big picture is all well and good but what if you want to try and convey what it means to an audience of teachers or parents who are not familiar with it. Its not going to be instantly clear what on Earth is going on! Fear not, here is a powerpoint file that allows [...]

QCA – The Big Picture

Around the three key questions that QCA have posed (See below) when considering the philosophical changes required for KS3 curriculum change, a “big picture” for curriculum change has been developed. The diagram goes some way towards unpicking the range of themes and implications behind the deceptively simple questions which should assist schools in their prioritisation, [...]